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Heartland
trustees’ founding chair reflects on highlights
[DEC.
15, 2001] NORMAL
— After 11 years of helping to shape and steer the last public
community college to be established in the state, Sharon J. Tarvin,
chair of the Heartland Community College board of trustees, stepped
down from her elected position. Tarvin, director of financial
services at State Farm, officially left the board at the Nov. 20
meeting.
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There
have been numerous high points during her 11 years on the board,
according to Tarvin, including the first commencement exercises,
with Sen. Paul Simon; moving into the Towanda Plaza facilities;
breaking ground for the permanent campus with Gov. Jim Edgar; and
the grand opening of the Raab Road Campus. Of her experience as
Heartland’s trustee chair for 11 years Tarvin claims, "It was
an incredible opportunity to make a difference!"
"When
I think of highlights, I have to mention the accreditation process
and the search for our founding president as well," she adds.
"Accreditation was an extremely important achievement —
because each time we were approved for the highest allowable level,
it enabled our students to qualify for financial aid as well as
established us as a credible academic institution." Recalling
the presidential search, Tarvin maintains, "Another thrill to
have in those beginning stages was the extensive presidential search
we had in order to find just the right individual. We had an
incredible volume of candidates, many of them international."
"It
was an exciting challenge from the very beginning," states
Heartland Community College President Jon Astroth. He adds,
"Sharon was extremely valuable as a board member because she is
such a ‘quick study,’ and that quality was especially important
during those times of rapid change."
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Other
qualities also contributed to her valued leadership of the college,
Astroth contends. "Sharon came to the task with excellent
connections and a solid reputation within the local business
community. She also brought an enthusiasm for leading this
organization from infancy to an advanced stage of growth." He
says, "She was never at a loss for taking on a challenge, and
her guidance and involvement with the rest of the board has always
been in a spirit of consultation and cooperation."
Tarvin
takes with her the experiences of working with a team of fellow
founding board members, including these still on the board: Roger L.
Tuttle of Pontiac, Margaret Esposito of Normal and Jim White of
Lincoln.
Tarvin
was honored at a reception hosted by President Jon Astroth before
the Nov. 20 board meeting.
[Heartland
Community College news release]
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Monthly
Aviation Careers program prepares cadets for summer workshop
[DEC.
1, 2001] Heritage
in Flight Museum in Lincoln has formed a group of resource
individuals to develop the curriculum for the Aviation Careers
summer workshop, made possible by a grant from the Illinois
Department of Natural Resources.
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So
far, Jim Cunningham, David A. Last, Brian Miller, Colleen M. Moehle
and Nick Woll have agreed to serve. David and Nick are from Lincoln,
Jim and Brian are from Normal, and Colleen is from Atlanta.
Jim
Cunningham works in library science at Illinois State University,
owns and flies a Piper Arrow, is a published author about aviation
history, and is a ground school instructor for Image Air in
Bloomington.
David
A. Last is a civilian pilot and flies a Blackhawk helicopter as a
member of the Illinois Air National Guard.
Brian
Miller is an engineer, a consultant for State Farm Insurance Company
and a former employee of Boeing Aircraft Company. Brian owns a Beech
Seria and is working on his instructor rating.
Colleen
M. Moehle is a member of the women pilots group named the 99s and
serves on the EAA Foundation Education Committee.
Nick
Woll was an aviation teacher at Northern Illinois University and now
serves on the EAA Foundation’s education board of directors. He
has served as a consultant to NASA and in numerous foreign
countries.
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Most
of the activity of the resource group will be done by e-mail or mail
and will involve submitting ideas, reviewing drafts of written
material, and locating and producing instructional material.
The
Aviation Careers summer workshop will be during the first full week
in June 2002. The Monday session will be devoted to aviation rules
and aviation licenses (Federal Aviation Authority); Tuesday’s
session covers military aviation; Wednesday focuses on airports and
commercial aviation; Thursday looks at employment opportunities in
corporate aviation and general aviation; and the Friday session
considers the planes of today and tomorrow.
We
would like the summer cadets to have a background in the principles
of flight and a comprehension of the development of aircraft during
the first hundred years of heavier-than-air aircraft flight. In
order to provide this background we are having Sunday meetings once
a month. Students meet at the Heritage in Flight building at the
Logan County Airport on the first Sunday of each month from 2 to 4
p.m. Students who have a schedule conflict can contact the museum,
and efforts will be made to accommodate them.
Heritage
in Flight museum is accepting students into the Aviation Careers
program by referral, preferably from a guidance counselor. Further
information can be obtained by visiting the museum on a Saturday or
Sunday. We will continue enrolling cadets until the program is full.
[Milt
Underkoffler, educational coordinator for Heritage in Flight Museum]
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Honors
& Awards
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LCHS
team places first at
Central Illinois Holiday Speech Classic
[DEC.
13, 2001] The
LCHS speech team placed first in both the varsity and novice
divisions in the Central Illinois Holiday Speech Classic on Dec. 8
at Lincoln Community High School.
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"One
of our goals this season was to win a first-place trophy at a
tournament. We are very excited to see that we have already achieved
that goal," says Ed Jodlowski, one of the speech team coaches.
"This
is a wonderful morale booster for the students. The hard work that
they put in every week is definitely showing through," says
Carrie Schreiber, also a coach of the speech team.
Individual
placements were as follows:
Varsity
Abby
Ebelherr, first place, impromptu speaking
Collin
Voyles, first, original comedy
Ty
Sank, second, special occasion speaking
Betsy
Buttell, second, humorous interpretation
Abrigail
Sasse, second, radio speaking
Eric
Agostino, second, prose reading
Beau
Hanger, second, original comedy
Tim
Fak, second, extemporaneous speaking
Doug
Rohrer and Julie Wood, second, dramatic duet acting
Collin
Voyles and Adama Voyles, third, humorous duet acting
Beau
Hanger and Kasey Pepperell, fourth, humorous duet acting
Callie
Davison and Stanton Schumacher, fourth, dramatic duet acting
Eric
Agostino, fifth, verse reading
Tim
Fak, fifth, impromptu speaking
Brian
Welter, fifth, original oratory
Callie
Davison, sixth, dramatic interpretation
Jamie
Eckert and Abby Ebelherr, sixth, dramatic duet acting
Erica
Brickey, sixth, oratorical declamation
Doug
Rohrer and Betsy Buttell, sixth, humorous duet acting
Abrigail
Sasse, seventh, original oratory
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Novice
Brady
Gerdts and Brandon Davis, first, dramatic duet acting
Katie
Muck, first, dramatic interpretation
Wes
Reynolds, first, special occasion speaking
Brady
Gerdts and Brandon Davis, first, humorous duet acting
Tom
Swanson, first, humorous interpretation
Kasey
Pepperell, first, impromptu speaking
Brian
Welter, first, radio speaking
Jerrod
Marten, second, impromptu speaking
Katie
Gillen, second, original oratory
Lyndsey
Robbing, second, oratorical declamation
Katie
Muck and Wes Reynolds, second, humorous duet acting
Alex
Gurga, second, humorous interpretation
Amanda
Perry, third, oratorical declamation
Tom
Swanson, third, verse reading
Matt
Bean and Alex Gurga, fourth, humorous duet acting
Lyndsey
Robbins, fifth, dramatic interpretation
Jerrod
Marten, fifth, extemporaneous speaking
Matt
Bean, fifth, original comedy
Jillian
Kimberlin, sixth, radio speaking
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Pickering
named dean emeritus at Lincoln College
[DEC.
10, 2001] The
board of trustees of Lincoln College honored Athletic Director Allen
Pickering with the title of dean emeritus this weekend at the
December quarterly meeting in Chicago.
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Pickering,
a native of Lexington and graduate of Illinois State University and
Northern Arizona University, joined Lincoln College in 1970 as
associate professor of physical education and assistant basketball
coach.
In
16 years of coaching he compiled a 367-155 record and won 19
tournaments, including seven sectional championships and two state
titles. As head coach of the Lynx, Pickering coached two teams that
went to the national tournament. In 1979-80 the Lynx placed ninth,
while the 1980-81 team finished second at the national tournament in
Hutchinson, Kan. In 1981, he was selected as the Illinois (Region
IV) Junior College Basketball Coach of the Year.
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In
1987, he was named dean of students for Lincoln College. He was
instrumental in developing a student resident hall assistant
program, as well as implementing the finals week study program
called "Late Night with Dean Pickering." He was also
responsible for establishing a full-time counselor position under
his leadership in student services.
Lincoln
College President Jack Nutt says the new title honors the service
that Pickering has given over the years. "Allen has played an
important role for many students who have passed through Lincoln
College. He has been a loyal and dedicated member of the athletic
department, and we are fortunate to have his leadership."
[Lincoln College news
release]
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Competition
results for Richland speech team
[DEC.
4, 2001] Eight
of the 19 members of the Richland Forensicaturs, along with coaches
Carrie Foxx and Sam Straka, spent the weekend in Grayslake,
participating in the final competition of the fall semester.
Dan White, speech and debate team president, came home with a
fifth place in persuasive speaking his first time out with the
event. David Burke placed sixth in extemporaneous speaking.
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The
Holiday Classic Tournament hosted by College of Lake County included
entries from 10 community colleges in Illinois and two universities
(UIS and NIU) with novice (first-year) teams. Of the 12, RCC
placed eighth this time around.
The
two trophies won bring the total to 23 for this team voluntarily
coached by four Richland faculty members (Joe and Sam Straka, Carrie
Foxx and Vicky Gilpin), assisted by a former speech team
participant, Michael Huff.
Almost
all of this semester’s team members will be returning for the
spring slate of tournaments, which include invitationals at College
of DuPage and Harper College, the state IIFA tournament, and
regional and national Phi Rho Pi tournaments.
All
Forensicaturs have qualified for the national honorary fraternity
Phi Rho Pi, an association exclusively for community college speech
and debate teams, by their participation in these events. Fourteen
of the qualifiers will compete in the national tournament in Fort
Worth, Texas, in April 2002 against members from the rest of the
nation.
Team
members who have qualified as a result of the first three
tournaments RCC was able to attend this fall are:
Dan
White (third, prose; fifth, duet interpretation; fifth, persuasion)
Nick
Stolle (first, speech to entertain; sixth, prose)
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Sarah
Rutherford (second and third, communication analysis)
Warren
Brinegar (third, dramatic interpretation; fourth, extemporaneous)
Kendra
Cullison (third, extemporaneous; fourth, impromptu)
Matt
Trusner (fifth, informative; sixth, extemporaneous)
Josh
Collins (two sixth-place finishes, speech to entertain)
David
Burke (fifth and sixth, extemporaneous)
Tracy
Jeffers (fourth, speech to entertain)
Stephanie
Patrick (fifth, duet interpretation)
Brandon
McNicol (sixth, program oral interpretation)
Adam
Disney (seventh, program oral interpretation)
Cory
Fane (seventh, informative)
Christina
Shaw, Chris Hazlehurst, Aaron Stanley, John Holman, Rob Fifield and
Lyndsey Burns have also earned their first level of membership in
the national honorary fraternity.
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Announcements
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IMSA
schedules statewide informational meetings
AURORA — The Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy has scheduled informational meetings for students, parents and community members to learn more
about IMSA’s academic, residential and admission programs.
Admission counselors will have the meetings throughout Illinois.
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Located
in Aurora, IMSA is a learning enterprise which builds the capacity
of students, teachers and policymakers to improve and transform
mathematics and science teaching and learning. IMSA’s public
residential educational program serves Illinois students (grades
10-12) talented in mathematics and science; its professional
development center serves schools, educational systems, teachers and
students in Illinois and beyond.
IMSA,
which opened in 1986, has graduated more than 2,400 students, with
college placement rates of more than 99 percent. Illinois students
enrolled in the equivalent of a ninth-grade program are eligible to
apply. Admission is highly competitive. Tuition and most room and
board expenses are provided by state funds. The application deadline
is March 1, 2002.
The
academy offers advanced courses in mathematics, science, the arts
and humanities with an emphasis on connections within and across the
disciplines. Research is an important part of the academic program
and enables students to work with faculty, scientists and scholars.
The academy also offers many opportunities in fine and performing
arts, 32 co-curricular activities and 18 interscholastic sports.
For
more information about IMSA or the informational meetings, write or
call the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Office of
Admission, 1500 W. Sullivan Road, Aurora, IL 60506-1000, (630)
907-5027, or in Illinois, 1 (800) 500-IMSA. You may also visit tile
IMSA admissions website: www.imsa.edu/team/admissions/
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Informational
meeting schedule
for 2001-2002 admission
(City,
location, address, date, time)
Carterville,
John A. Logan College, 700 Logan College Road, 1-31-02, 7 p.m.
Champaign,
University of Illinois, Carle Forum Bldg., Fritz Conference Room,
611 W. Park St., 12-13-01, 6 p.m.
Chicago,
DePaul University, 234 S. Wabash Ave., 1-15-02, 7 p.m.
Chicago,
Beverly Branch Library, 2121 W. 95th St., 1-16-02, 7 p.m.
Chicago
Heights, Prairie State College, 202 S. Halsted St., 2-13-02, 6:30
p.m.
Edwardsville,
Edwardsville Middle School, 145 West St., 1-29-02, 7 p.m.
Effingham,
Effingham Junior High, 600 S. Henrietta, 1-23-02, 7 p.m.
Grayslake
College of Lake County, 19351 W. Washington St., 12-17-01, 6:30 p.m.
Normal,
Chiddix Junior High School, 300 S. Walnut, 1-8-02, 7 p.m.
Oglesby,
Illinois Valley Community College, 815 N. Orlando Smith Ave.,
1-17-02, 7 p.m.
Palatine,
Jane Addams Elementary School, 1020 Sayles Drive, 12-10-01, 7 p.m.
Peoria,
Washington School, 3706 North Grand Blvd., 1-10-02, 6 p.m.
Rockford,
U of I College of Medicine at Rockford, 1601 Parkview Ave., 1-24-02,
6:30 p.m.
Springfield,
SIU School of Medicine, 801 N. Rutledge, 12-11-01, 6 p.m.
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Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy hosting informal open houses for
parents, potential students
AURORA
— The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy will open its doors
to prospective students and parents on the first Saturday of every
month through May of 2002 to provide information about its programs.
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During
the sessions, called "Saturday Live at IMSA," admissions
counselors will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to answer
questions about the admissions process and provide information about
IMSA’s academic and residential programs. Tours will also be
available, as well as opportunities to speak with current IMSA
students.
Space
is limited and advance reservations are required for the Saturday
visits. Please call the IMSA Office of Admission at (630) 907-5027
or 1 (800) 500-IMSA (4672) to schedule your visit.
Lunch
tickets are available for $4 per person.
Located
in Aurora, IMSA is a learning enterprise that builds the capacity of
students, teachers and policymakers to improve and transform
mathematics and science teaching and learning. IMSA’s public
residential educational program serves Illinois students (grades
10-12) talented in mathematics and science; its professional
development center serves schools, educational systems, teachers and
students in Illinois and beyond.
Applications
for the class of 2005, which will enroll next fall, are now being
accepted. Talented Illinois students enrolled in the equivalent of a
ninth-grade program are eligible for consideration. Tuition and most
room and board expenses are provided by state funds. A written
application must be completed and returned to IMSA, postmarked no
later than March 1, 2002. Students should contact their high school
guidance counselor or IMSA’s admission office at (630) 907-5027 or
1 (800) 500-IMSA to receive an application.
[IMSA
news release]
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Notice
to participants in the current GED program
You
are urged to pass all five sections of the present GED exam by Dec.
31. In January 2002, a new GED test will be given and it will be
necessary to start over from the beginning. Make your plans now to
finish all five sections and get your GED.
For
orientation dates and registration information, call Heartland
Community College, 735-1731.
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Lincoln
District 27 schools
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Breakfasts
(Milk served with all
meals)
Monday,
Dec. 17 — Cereal, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, juice
Tuesday,
Dec. 18 — Iced pastry, fruit
Wednesday,
Dec. 19 — Cereal, pop tart, juice
Thursday,
Dec. 20 — Silver dollar pancakes with syrup, sausage patty,
fruit
Friday,
Dec. 21 — Cereal, cinnamon toast, juice
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Lunches
(Milk served with all
meals)
Monday,
Dec. 17 — Hamburger on bun with cheese, french fries, carrot
sticks, corn
Tuesday,
Dec. 18 — Spaghetti with meat sauce, peas, garlic toast, fruit
cocktail
Wednesday,
Dec. 19 — Max cheese sticks, green beans, pears, jello
Thursday,
Dec. 20 — Chicken fried steak, hash brown, bread and butter,
strawberry applesauce
Friday,
Dec. 21 — Turkey or pork roast, mashed potatoes with gravy,
rolls with butter, peaches
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Mount
Pulaski Grade School
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Milk
and condiments are served with all meals.
Students
in grades three through eight may choose hot dog and bun or
peanut butter and jelly sandwich in place of main entree.
Students
in grades six, seven and eight may choose salad bar in place of
main menu.
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Monday,
Dec. 17 — Cheese
pizza, lettuce, mixed vegetables, peaches, brownie
Tuesday,
Dec. 18 —
Barbecued chicken, bun, carrots, mixed fruit, baked beans, rice
crispy treat
Wednesday,
Dec. 19 — Chili,
cheese, crackers, carrots, apple crisp, bread, oleo
Thursday,
Dec. 20 —
Ravioli, lettuce, green beans, pears, bread, oleo
Friday,
Dec. 21 — Corn
dog, peaches, cookie, ice cream cup
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West
Lincoln-Broadwell School
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Monday,
Dec. 17 — Chili, crackers, toasted cheese, celery and peanut
butter cup, fruit ice
Tuesday,
Dec. 18 — Glazed barbecue chicken patty on bun, french fries,
corn, pears
Wednesday,
Dec. 19 — Corn dog, tortilla chips and cheese, lettuce salad,
mixed fruit
Thursday,
Dec. 20 — Open-faced turkey sandwich, potatoes, peas,
cranberries, peach cup
Friday,
Dec. 21 — Chicken noodle soup, crackers, combo sandwich,
chips, assorted desserts
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